When you go to the mountains, you see them and you admire them. In a sense, they give you a challenge, and you try to express that challenge by climbing them.

Tina Turner is someone that I admire, because she made her strength feminine and sexy. Marilyn Monroe, because she was a curvy woman. I’m drawn to things that have the same kind of silhouettes as what she wore because our bodies are similar.

I shall make that trip. I shall go to Korea.

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

Two things control men’s nature, instinct and experience.

Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

I am proud to have been born in Iowa. Through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy, it was a place of adventure and daily discoveries – the wonder of the growing crops, the excitements of the harvest, the journeys to the woods for nuts and hunting, the joys of snowy winters, the comfort of the family fireside, of good food and tender care.

I love travelling full stop – so while I’ve had some harrowing instances, I never look at them negatively. Memories are made when you’re travelling – not when you’re chained to your desk.

People in Latin America… love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them.

The more violent the storm, the quicker it passes.

What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

Buy the ticket, take the ride.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

When you draw or paint a tree, you do not imitate the tree; you do not copy it exactly as it is, which would be mere photography. To be free to paint a tree or a flower or a sunset, you have to feel what it conveys to you: the significance, the meaning of it.

I have no hostility to nature, but a child’s love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.

I don’t call myself a Buddhist. I’m a free spirit. I believe I’m here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that’s my religion.

When you’re climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.

No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.

While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn’t the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.

Only as far as the masters of the world have called in nature to their aid, can they reach the height of magnificence. This is the meaning of their hanging-gardens, villas, garden-houses, islands, parks, and preserves.

One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.

You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.

I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature’s gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

Modern science says: ‚The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.‘ From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom.

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.

Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket – half a million dollars. It can be done.

Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.

The unnatural, that too is natural.

The more I see of deer, the more I admire them as mountaineers. They make their way into the heart of the roughest solitudes with smooth reserve of strength, through dense belts of brush and forest encumbered with fallen trees and boulder piles, across canons, roaring streams, and snow-fields, ever showing forth beauty and courage.

Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.

I like the fact that Melbourne always seems to support their chefs and promote them in ways I find really admirable.

Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.

I want to challenge you today to get out of your comfort zone. You have so much incredible potential on the inside. God has put gifts and talents in you that you probably don’t know anything about.

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

Light is the greatest disinfectant in nature and also in organizations.

How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

I used to watch MotoGP quite a bit, I liked MotoGP. I had a motorbike before I had a go-kart and before I had a motorbike I had a quad bike but I was too dangerous, and before I did quad biking I did horse riding, so it’s been a long journey.

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

Nature has always had more force than education.

In all my wild mountaineering, I have enjoyed only one avalanche ride; and the start was so sudden, and the end came so soon, I thought but little of the danger that goes with this sort of travel, though one thinks fast at such times.

An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

I’m definitely a Polaroid camera girl. For me, what I’m really excited about is bringing back the artistry and the nature of Polaroid.

I have been very interested and intrigued and congratulatory toward President Bush and his paintings.

We’ve climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it’s a valley of peace.

There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.